David Nicholas
Local Host, All Things ConsideredContact David Nicholas
📧 nicho1d@cmich.edu 📞 989-774-3105
David Nicholas is a reporter and the local host of WCMU's All Things Considered. You can hear him each weekday from 4pm - 7pm.
David previously served as WCMU's Music Director, and was the host of "Mosaic" and "The Beat."
Hired in 1990 at WCMU, David served for 11 years as the main host of "Nightside Jazz and Blues." He was named News Director and served as local "Morning Edition" host in 2001, winning several awards from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, and played a role in winning "Station of the Year" in 2003.
In October 2015, David was tapped to be WCMU's music director. That same month, he launched "Mosaic," a daily music show that also focuses heavily on the arts. The title comes from the idea that WCMU has become a cultural center for those making, featuring and celebrating art in central and northern Michigan. Additionally, he hosted "The Beat," a weekly mix of jazz, blues and more.
David returned to his news background in March 2023, when he was named the local host of All Things Considered.
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Was the denial of a permit for a youth ministry in a small northern Michigan town a zoning issue or an act of religious bias? That's the central question in a new federal lawsuit out of Leland Township. -
Journalist Sierra Biidaaban Nadeau did not set out to write What the Ancestors Say looking for family ties at the Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School. -
Molly Ann Hotek was chosen for Chicago Summer Opera, a program that performs six operas. She landed a role in Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw.” -
Jacob Steichen, a firefighter in Traverse City, was in high school when 9/11 happened. The attacked helped influence him to join the fire service. -
WCMU's former Director of Radio John Sheffler speaks with David Nicholas about their experiences being on air the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. -
The future of a tunnel project for the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac has been a years-long cycle of litigation and environmental controversy. Here's where things stand. -
CMU has received a $1 million grant to fund the development of a mobile health simulator, taking the training to the health care providers serving rural Michigan. -
Many of Michigan’s nearly 1,500 townships and villages are run by part-time retirees in their 80s who are begging for help. The system is frayed and, without reform, communities could falter. Lansing isn’t coming to rescue. -
Michigan has two programs that offer two years of free community college tuition. -
Dr. Cole Bartels, Trombone Professor, CMU’s School of Music, is releasing a new CD, “Technological Eclipse” I learned about the formation and transformation of the group
